Weird audio loop echo bugs with Atlas maps and Hideout NPCs PS5 client

Running back and forth through portals to vendor loot I have noticed a constantly recurring bug in PS5 client where the game is loading the audio files several times at once, including that for NPC speech. I'm sure this is related to the performance issues, the major lag on Atlas maps, where sounds of enemies dying or spells, etc constantly loading must be reaching some kind of threshold where it starts impacting every sound that the game client plays, causing repeating of NPC dialogues when you interact to disenchant items, sell, etc. it results in NPCs stuttering as they repeat the same lines several times in one second.

My guess is the client has buggy code related to sound files playing that puts all sounds that play into some kind of perm. state of wanting to load them numerous times when you interact with an NPC once.

On that note, please give an option to turn off the NPC voices, it is extremely annoying listening to NPCs berate me every time I identify and disenchant loot while running in and out of map instances. I don't even know why you guys chose to make the end-game NPCs have such dialogue lines to begin with, who wants to listen to arrogant nonsense every 30 seconds?
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